Valentine Card Tutorial

I love Valentine's Day. It is one of my favorite holidays. I usually do lots of baking and pack up fancy little boxes with cookies, cupcakes and other goodies and we hand deliver them to the kids teachers, family and friends.  I'll have to share this years treats with you when the time comes!

Another favorite thing is to make our own cards. Here is a quick project for 

Painted Valentine Cards 

 that is fun & kid friendly! 

Gather Your Supplies

• Blank note cards or card stock

• A variety of craft paints

• A sponge brush, piece of sponge or old cloth

•  Embellishments (doilies, ribbons, printed greetings, pictures, etc)  

 Simply squeeze a variety of paints on your plate and begin dabbing your sponge into several colors at once. Be sure to sponge off any excess onto a paper towel before stamping unless you prefer a heavier handed look. 

Dab paint onto one side of your blank card in no particular pattern. Adding bits of color and layering as you go! 

 

  

 Lay on newspaper and allow to completely dry. Mine took around 20-30 minutes. Then begin embellishing with your favorite goodies! 

It's also fun to paint gift tags as well! 

 If you prefer to let us do the work we have a variety of painted tags and cards available on our site and more are coming later this week! 

Have fun creating!

~Carrie  

Cozy & Warm

 It has been so cold here! Cold for Southern California anyways. I have been tucked away working on Valentines and sipping tea the past few days, just trying to stay warm!

Evangeline has also been helping out in between bowls of hot chicken soup! 

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

~Carrie 

Ribbons and Roses

 We have some beautiful new stamped ribbons just in time for your Valentine's Day projects! Be sure to stop by and check them out!

 We also have a few new lavender sachets!

My Funny Valentine

 A new year and I finally got around to updating my poor neglected blog. I have been quite busy with my little one and working on a new plan for the business. I am really excited to begin taking things in a bit of a new direction which will allow me more time to spend with my family and still get to create when the mood strikes. As you'll see below I have been making a few Valentine's treats for the site. These will be up soon and l will give you more details about the upcoming changes to Noelle Garrett Designs in future posts!

Happy Belated New Year! 

~Carrie

Greetings!

Isn't it crazy how expensive greeting cards are in the stores? I was out getting a card the other day (yes, eve  I still run to grab one at the store from time to time) and I couldn't believe the price for just a plain old card. Nothing fancy mind you. So I came home and got to work on some new cards for our Parisian Delights category. Hope you enjoy them!

~Carrie~

A Bit of Romance

 

Kind of in a lacy, frilly, 

romantic mood here lately! :) 

Happy Wednesday! 

~Carrie

Beautiful Bijoux

 We are really excited to bring you these beautiful one of kind jewelry creations by one of our very favorite artists, Sherri Mitchell. We hope you will stop by and see these pieces and several others in our new category,

 Bijoux Limited Editions. There are even some special handmade boxes below for these sweet creations!

~Carrie~